Elizabeth Morris’s The First Horseman is one of my very favorite romance novels, a comfort read that has come to feel like a cherished friend over the years. Rachel McKinnon and Allison Girard were best friends in their childhood days in Magnolia Grove, South Carolina. Rachel was the daughter of the town’s much revered minister,…
Glittering Images is about British clergymen. How not-exciting does that sound? And yet it is one of the most suspenseful, riveting books I’ve ever had the pleasure to read. The novel centers around the institution of marriage, an institution that was undergoing change in England in the 1930s, when the book takes place. A bill…
Blue Dahlia, which combines an intriguing mystery and a compelling romance, just earned a spot firmly on my keeper shelf . Halfway through reading this book I realized I wanted the next two books in the trilogy right now so I wouldn’t have to wait to find out what happens with the Harper ghost and…
Dark, sensual and wholly compelling, Dream of Me is an absorbing read from start to finish. Theron is an incubus, a demon who slips into women’s dreams and fulfills their deepest sexual longings. For four thousand years, he has given women the kind of pleasure they could only find in their sleep, while feeling nothing…
Hands down, The Real Deal is my favorite book for 2004; it features so many of my favorite themes that I not only re-read the book immediately (and more than once), I also immediately wrote up an At the Back Fence column all about it. And did I mention the hero is scrumptious? Yum. If…
A kindhearted young gentlewoman, in financial straits through no fault of her own. An unrepentant rake, titled, of course, who doesn’t believe in love. A marriage of convenience. A gruff Papa duke. A country estate brimming with relatives and old grudges. A cornucopia of Regency cliches, yet one of the most enduring Traditional Regencies ever…
As a long-time Nora Roberts reader, in my mind the author and her audience have an unspoken deal. Depending on the format (series, paperback original, hardback), the reader is guaranteed a certain “degree” of Nora with, not surprisingly, a higher price delivering a higher degree. Since this unspoken deal is one the author very rarely…
There’s nothing quite like reading those first few pages of a book and knowing immediately that you’re in good hands. That’s what my experience reading Connie Brockway’s latest was like. With a few pages I knew My Pleasure was going to be an exceptionally good read. It was precisely that. Helena Nash is a great…
The Runaway Duke is set in England at the end of the Regency period and features a tortured hero and the spunky heroine with whom he falls in love. “But I’ve read that story and seen these characters a hundred times this year!” the romance reader wails. “Can’t we have something new?” Well, don’t dismiss…
He tucked his arm through hers, his large hand covering hers, and there was no escape. She trembled, but she didn’t pull away, letting him draw her down the sidewalk. “You see,” he murmured, “just two harmless souls on a stroll down Park Avenue. Who would have thought about the darkness that lurks beneath our…
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